My Awesome Kid!

Doing a test run on the Kids' CBC party hat for the upcoming Kids' CBC Days Party Song video shoot

What can I say? I have an awesome kid. It's been a long time since I blogged, but want to get back into it, to make sure I'm capturing at least a few of the incredible moments I get to enjoy on a daily basis. It really is the little moments that make everything so fun...

Somehow my love of Harry Potter (even though Noah is a long way away from reading them) has permeated into Noah. So tonite after supper, while we were in the back yard, Noah was using his bubble machine to chase all the "Slytherins" away ("they are the bad guys, mom" ... clearly I am teaching him some very important stuff!). Naturally, he was Harry Potter, I got to be Hermione Granger and when Auntie P called she was left being Ron Weasley. Well, she does have the right hair colour!






But while Noah might be like me in the pop culture department (I mean, whose lego collection is it really? more on that in later blogs), in the Meyers Briggs world of personality traits, where mommy is an "N" which means I fly by the seat of my pants, make decisions on impulse, am spontaneous and get uber excited about all new ideas, Noah is an "S" so far, which means he really likes to process thoughts, gather all the info and really understand things (you should see him at constructions sites, trying to figure out how things work). Here's a photo from June where we drove by a fire station, and the ladder truck was opened and getting repaired. We stopped and watched the guy for about 45 mins before mommy finally convinced Noah to move on.

Tonite at bedtime, we had what has become routine in in our home. As you know, kids always try to prolong bedtime and Noah is a genius at it: "Mommy, I'm hungry. Mommy, my sheet isn't on right. Mommy I need a hug." But his best work is in the questions. Just as I am about to head downstairs I get the  "Mommy, I just have a question" which generally turns into two, and sometimes more.

Tonites questions:

Mommy, what parts are in a car?

Mommy, how do they make picture frames?

Mommy, how do they put houses in the ground?

Mommy, how do you get a cold? (at which point, he explains how he accidentally shared a cold once)

Mommy, how do they make lightbulbs? after which I suggest we look it up online in the morning, and then proceeds to explain to me how they are made.

Mommy, I have a thousand questions.

I'm sure he does.

Oh and the sleeping picture is actually from Ikea on the weekend with Grandma. At Ikea, he loves to try out all the beds. It's his favourite section.